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| 1 | +# Installing aeternum |
| 2 | +We currently support Windows 10 (and up) aswell as Linux! |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +!!! warn |
| 5 | + Like mentioned above MacOS support is unknown, we only provide a portable MacOS variant. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## 🪟 Windows 10+ |
| 8 | +There's **multiple** ways of installing aeternum on your Windows device. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +The easist is with the aeterum [installer](#win-installer). |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +### Installer { #win-installer } |
| 13 | +Start of by downloading the latest [aeternum-setup.exe](https://github.com/cloudy-org/aeternum/releases/download/latest/aeternum-setup.exe). |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +The install setup works like every other installer. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +- **Select the install method.** |
| 18 | +You can either install it for all users or only for yourself. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +- **Select the Language.** |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +- **Accept the License.** |
| 23 | +!!! warn |
| 24 | + By accepting this license, you accept that we are not liability for anything you do with it and that we also don't give you warranty for anything. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +- **Select where it should be installed.** |
| 27 | +!!! info |
| 28 | + By default it'll install into `C:\Program Files\aeternum` |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +- **Wait.** |
| 31 | +The installer will now extract all important files for aeternum to work, in the directory what you specified in step 4. |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +- **Done.** |
| 34 | +Aeternum has finished installing and now can be used. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +#### Portable |
| 37 | +Start of by downloading the latest [aeternum-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip](https://github.com/cloudy-org/aeternum/releases/download/latest/aeternum-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip). |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +- **Extract the contents.** |
| 40 | +This can be done with the normal windows explorer (or any other third party zip program like [7-zip](https://7-zip.org/)). |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +- **Open the folder.** |
| 43 | +Open the folder with the extracted contents. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +- **Run.** |
| 46 | +Now you can open aeternum via the `aeternum.exe`. |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +!!! info |
| 49 | + This is how you'll have to open it up everytime, if you would like it via the Windows Search or via a shortcut on your desktop then we recommend you use the [installer](#win-installer) method. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +## 🐧 Linux |
| 52 | +We recommend you using your package manager to install aeternum (if avaliable). |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +#### Package manager |
| 55 | +The only official packages we provide are for Arch so the AUR, every other packages are provided by **third-parties**. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +##### Bin |
| 58 | +[](https://repology.org/project/aeternum-bin/versions) |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +For the **arch** package just use (we will use [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay) as an example here, replace yay if you use a different aur package manager): |
| 61 | +```sh title="Terminal" |
| 62 | +yay -Sy aeternum-bin |
| 63 | +``` |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +!!! info |
| 66 | + For every other linux distribution, you'll have to check if your package manager has the `aeternum-bin` package. |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +##### Build |
| 69 | +This will build the package from the [latest release](https://github.com/cloudy-org/aeternum/releases/latest). |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +[](https://repology.org/project/aeternum/versions) |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +For the **arch** package just use (we will use [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay) as an example here, replace yay if you use a different aur package manager): |
| 74 | +```sh title="Terminal" |
| 75 | +yay -Sy aeternum |
| 76 | +``` |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +!!! info |
| 79 | + For every other linux distribution, you'll have to check if your package manager has the `aeternum` package. |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +#### Portable |
| 82 | +Start of by downloading the latest [aeternum-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz](https://github.com/cloudy-org/aeternum/releases/download/v0.1.2-beta.1/aeternum-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz). |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +- **Extract the contents.** |
| 85 | +You can either use your file manager or your terminal with the command: |
| 86 | +```sh title="Terminal" |
| 87 | +tar -xf aeternum-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz |
| 88 | +``` |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +- **Open the folder.** |
| 91 | +You can either `cd` into it or open it with your file manager. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +- **Run.** |
| 94 | +Now you can double click on `aeternum` or run it via your terminal with: |
| 95 | +```sh title="Terminal" |
| 96 | +./aeternum |
| 97 | +``` |
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